Getting Ready for the New Year with My Belle De Jour Power Planner

I am a self-confessed planner addict. As a very busy person, a planner helps me get organized, pen down my thoughts & ideas, and goals for the coming year. As you may have noticed, I collect Starbucks planners. Aside from the ones given to me as Christmas gifts, I also collect CBTL planners. If I just could drink coffee even more, I could have collected Seattle's Best planners, as well. :))   

But planners are not created equal.  It's wise to choose a planner which best fits your lifestyle, and your budget, of course.  The features (like discount coupons, events tracker, etc) and the visual appeal (or how the planner looks) are also considered in buying a planner.  I collect the planners from the coffee shops, not only because of its visual appeal, but also because of the freebies and discounts that I get.

Now, I will start to collect Belle de Jour planners, too. And I blame the BDJ team for giving me one (thanks also to them hihi)!  My Belle de Jour Power Planner is everything I need in a planner and more!  

The term Belle de Jour (bel duh zhoor’) is French fashion lingo for “It” girl, redefined by BDJ to mean the modern day renaissance woman who dares to achieve her goals, lives her dream life, makes a difference in her community, while doing everything in great style.

The power planner includes time-management principles to help BDJ Girls manage their life better, articles and affirmations to inspire them to live life to the fullest and of course, coupons to remind them of work-life balance.

One of its awesome features is the BDJ Lifestyle Card which you can use to get discounts and freebies from their brand partners like Bauhaus, CBTL, Roxy, DC, Tokyo Posh, Yves Rocher, New Orleans, TGI Friday's, and more.

What's more, there are over P40,000 worth of discount coupons and freebies to use! And that makes your buying this awesome planner so sulit! It could also be customized with your name on it! Cool, right? 

More features include:

• SPECIAL PAGES:

Dream Board: Knowing concretely what you want for yourself is one of the few steps to reach your goal.

Vacation Planner: Planning ahead of time is needed in order to have a successful vacation. Use this planner to organize the things you need to do before the dreamed vacation.

Random Thoughts: Throughout the week, we encounter new ideas, websites, proposals, etc. This section is for these new discoveries that you may want to go back to when you’re chilling out at home, relaxing. Who knows this could be your next big thing?

Goals Page: With everything moving fast as lightning it’s easy to lose track of what’s most important to us. Remember—that which matters the most should never give way to that which matters the least. Use these pages to keep focus and keep your life on track.

#choosetoshine: List down your strategies on how you can conquer your fears and track your progress in 21 days.

2014 Checklist: Here’s a BDJ Team certified things to do this 2014, to help you discover new things about yourself, and of course guide you to have a blast.

Tapestry Page: Take time to find ways to share your blessings with others. Also included are advocacy challenges you can do this year.

Gift List/Tracker: For some, planning and categorizing what to give to whom help keep the budget manageable, after all what’s important is not the value but the thought behind it.

Events Tracker: For birthdays, anniversaries, conferences, important deadlines and product sales. Just note them down at the start of the year – so you won’t forget!

Bills and Cash Flow Tracker: Know your monthly bills. Budget your hard-earned money and keep track of your monthly expenses, shopping splurges included. Added is the cash flow tracker to help you see in a page your savings, your target savings, cash source or income and the main bulk of your expenses. Do note that you should tally your bill total from the bills tracker and input it on your cash flow tracker for non-bill items to be included. This way you realize where your money is going.

Health Plan: No amount of success or money can replace your health. Make sure you complete you annual check-ups.

Menstrual Tracker: BDJ Planner’s most popular feature – well, you know what this is. Something to bring along when you visit the gyne.

• MONTHLY TOOLS

Freedom Page: Feel free to write anything or post random pictures on this space. This will serve as your own page to free your thoughts and feelings.

Important Events this Month: For the social butterfly in you, jot down parties, events, and birthdays so you won’t forget to RSVP. Feel free to add the movies or plays you would want to watch.

This Month’s List of: You can create a personal list of anything. Feel free to customize this box.

My Good Habit: List down the habit you want to have this month. Track your steps in the monthly calendar below by checking everyday if you have done your habit.

• WEEKLY LAYOUT FEATURES

My Masterpiece: BDJ Girls were asked: How will you make 2014 a masterpiece? Read up on interesting answers, printed throughout the weekly pages.

Weekly Affirmations: Always be inspired. Keep yourself motivated with our weekly affirmations.

Professional Priorities: Note here, the most important things you need to finish this week – your absolute priorities for the week that is related to your work only.

Major goals I will move forward this week: This will serve as your guide on the path you will take for the whole week.

Personal Errands: This is for your little personal errands, like things to buy, things to pay, things to have fixed, etc.

This Week’s List of: You can create a personal list of anything. Feel free to customize this box.

This Week I’m grateful for: Once in awhile we need to remember the blessings we received, through writing it down we are reminded weekly how fortunate you are in so many ways.

Personal Lists: This space is all yours, use it as you please. Create your own lists. Note down your random thoughts, people you’ve met, clothes you’ve worn, food you’ve eaten, whatever you wish. Remember this is your planner – you know how to use it best.

Most Important Tasks: Yes, you have a million and one things that you need to do and it won’t fit this space. Remember the value of priorities. If you don’t explicitly state your number 1 priority (max 3) for the day, you might end up with multiple almost–finished tasks. As you know, almost does not count. Note your priority, finish it, then you proceed with your other also important but not super duper priority. 

Do check out also the new community site:  ilovebdj.com, where BDJ girls get to share their blogs, post about experiences in events, share favorite outfits and keep in touch with the BDJ community! To make things more exciting, there are also contests and giveaways!

To suit everyone's lifestyle and personality, they also have other planners like the NAVI 2014: Your Life Navigator, for travel bug who simply wants to achieve his goals in life. Check details and features HERE.

And there's Everything is Possible planner to help us make simple goals, and to take one step closer towards each of them every single day.  Check features HERE.

The planner is available at National Bookstores, Fully Booked and Powerbooks.  You can also buy them online HERE. Like Belle de Jour Planner on Facebook for more info.

So, are you ready for the New Year! Are you ready to reach your goals?